Addiesdive/Steeldive pilot watch, B-Uhr Type A homage
Addiesdive and Steeldive are Chinese watch brands that buy from the same giant factory complex in Guangdong. They sell this pilot watch on Ali-Express in three dial colors, and shopping thoughtfully you can buy one for under $100, tax included. Yes, Ali-Express now collects US sales tax! I got lucky and found this sterile dial without anyone's logo and text.
Seiko N35 movement, sapphire crystal, screw-down crown, even the bracelet is good. I'll test the lume tonight and add a note if it lasts more than an hour. [Edit two weeks later: the hour markers and numbers fade fast but the hands glow for 2+ hours, so not great but better than Casio.] The stainless steel bracelet is "engineer" style with solid links secured by cotter pins. It is water resistant but an homage to nothing, because no one designed a pilot watch for underwater use.
Pilot watch fans just love those old Luftwaffe B-Uhr watches. B-Uhr is short for Beobachtungsuhr which means aircrewman's watch, not "observer's watch." Excuse the rant but you won't get this from a bilingual dictionary, you need to be fully literate in English. There are lots of "homage" watches but no exact copies because the originals were huge: they used Swiss (mostly) railroad watch movements and had an iron inner case back to make them anti-magnetic. This was a Luftwaffe aircrewman with a B-Uhr, Type A dial produced 1940-41.
Type B dial (1942 bis Kriegsende) seems to be the popular choice among pilot watch collectors. That's the one with two rings of numbers, outer minutes inner hours, and if you've read this far you know what it looks like. Did you ever wonder what purpose it served? The original specification from the Reichsluftfahrtministerium (RLM) called for a rotating inner dial called a Lindbergh dial.
This part of the spec was dropped due to cost, but in 1942 they went with a
fake Lindbergh dial.
Go here for a history of the Weems dial and its successor, the improved Lindbergh dial. Yes, that's Charles Lindbergh AKA Lucky Lindy!
https://monochrome-watches.com/the-history-of-the-pilot-watch-part-four-longines-and-lindbergh/